Full-Stack PHP & React Engineer

Scalable Path is looking for a Full-Stack PHP & React Engineer to join the team and work on a client project. This is a remote, full-time (40 hours/week) position. Client company description The client is a leading platform for student accommodation and university insights, providing consumer and B2B products to students, accommodation providers, universities, and investors. Overview:

Responsibilities: Build and operate production systems end-to-end Develop and maintain the client's main website and supporting systems Drive review generation, accommodation discovery, and reservations features Partner with accommodation providers to display adverts and manage listings Enable verified partners to reply to student reviews Develop the Insights Tool for B2B clients including interactive maps, dashboards, and analytics Handle data ingestion (ETL), modeling, visualization, and reporting with focus on performance and data quality Maintain key services such as Content Service and User Service Manage engineering infrastructure and tooling including Bitbucket Pipelines, CI/CD, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GCP resource configuration, and CloudFlare WAF and Zero Trust setup.

Qualifications: 7–8+ years of professional full-stack development experience Strong expertise with Symfony and/or Laravel Solid MySQL experience including query optimisation, schema design, and performance Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices Proven ownership of complex systems or features end-to-end Experience working across both frontend and backend (true full-stack) Familiarity with Elasticsearch or similar search technologies Strong communication skills in English (written and spoken) Strong engineering practices including testing, code reviews, and quality mindset. Relationships - who you'll be working with:

You will work within the Product Engineering Team responsible for the main website and supporting systems, collaborating with internal teams and partners. Expected contract duration

More than 12 months. Preferred regions The client's preference is for candidates to be located in Brazil. Notes:

This will actually be a direct full-time employee hire by the client, who pays a minimum of 28 days of vacation. There will be a team offsite gathering at a beach resort in Brazil on September 8, 2026, so if you join before then, you can attend.

Required skills: English (Must have) PHP (Must have) MySQL (Must have) Symfony (Strongly preferred) React (Strongly preferred) Laravel (Strongly preferred) Python (Nice to have) Elasticsearch (Nice to have) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (Nice to have)